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joint-stock company

joint-stock company noun: a company with transferable ownership interests and limited shareholder liability.

Noun

joint-stock company (plural joint-stock companies)

  1. (UK) A company with transferable ownership interests and limited shareholder liability.
  2. (US) A company with transferable ownership interests and unlimited shareholder liability.

joint-stock company meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

joint-stock company in Hindi

company with transferable ownership and limited shareholder liability — see also public limited company
संयुक्त पूँजी कम्पनी sãyukt pūñjī kampanī

joint-stock company in Tamil

கூட்டுப் பங்குக் கழகம்

joint-stock company in Urdu

company with transferable ownership and limited shareholder liability — see also public limited company
مُشْتَرَکَہ سَرْمایَہ کی کَمْپَنی muśtaraka sarmāya kī kampanī

joint-stock company in Bengali

company with transferable ownership and limited shareholder liability — see also public limited company
যৌথ মূলধন ব্যবসা jōuth muldhon bêbśa
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joint-stock company in Arabic
شَرِكَة مُسَاهِمَة šarikat musāhima, شَرِكَة ذَات أَسْهُم šarikat ḏāt ʔashum, شَرِكَة أَمْوَال مُسَاهِمَة šarikat ʔamwāl musāhima
joint-stock company in Malay
syarikat saham bersama
joint-stock company in Indonesian
perusahaan saham bersama
joint-stock company in Vietnamese
công ty cổ phần

Forms of joint-stock company

pluraljoint-stock companies

Questions about joint-stock company

What does joint-stock company mean?
Joint-stock company means a company with transferable ownership interests and limited shareholder liability.
What is joint-stock company in Hindi?
Joint-stock company in Hindi is संयुक्त पूँजी कम्पनी (sãyukt pūñjī kampanī). See Joint-stock company meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is joint-stock company?
Joint-stock company is a noun.
What is the plural of joint-stock company?
The plural of joint-stock company is joint-stock companies.

Words near joint-stock company in the dictionary

  1. joint will
  2. joint wills
  3. joint-stock bank
  4. joint-stock banks
  5. joint-stock companies
  6. joint-stock company
  7. joint-stool
  8. joint-stools
  9. jointage
  10. jointages
  11. jointed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: joint-stock company (page history and authors); joint-stock company (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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